How about disks?  Do you use SSD drives?  Do you upload images into RAM disk?  
I am looking in using a 100GB image for the diskless computers.

Thanks.
Angelica

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On Apr 30, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Jesse Becker <becker...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:15:39PM -0500, Angelica Delgado wrote:
>> We want to setup a test lab with 100 diskless computers using aoe vblade.
>> However, we cannot find the server specs needed for AoE in terms of which
>> resources are used the most by AoE protocol such as  how much RAM, number
>> of CPUs , and network connections.
> 
> CPU count/speed won't matter as much as lots of RAM and good network
> cards.
> 
> Get 10G NICs if you can, and jumbo frame support is a "must" (on the NIC 
> *and* any
> switches involved).  We've had very good results with Myricom 10G NICs.
> Intel also makes good cards as well.
> 
> 
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